Shahrokh Yadegari

Shahrokh Yadegari, composer, sound designer, and producer, has collaborated with such artists as Peter Sellars, Robert Woodruff, Maya Beiser, Steven Schick, Vibeke Sorensen, Yolande Snaith, John Malashock, David Schweiszer, Hossein Omoumi, and Siamak Shajarian. He has performed and his music and sound designs has been presented internationally in United States, Canada, Chile, Europe, China, Australia, and Cuba in such venues as the Carnegie Hall, Festival of Arts and Ideas, Ravinia Festival, Japan America Theatre, the International Computer Music Conference (ICMC), the Institut fur Neue Musik und Musikerziehung (Darmstadt), Judah L. Magnes Museum in Berkeley, and Contemporary Museum of Art, San Diego. Yadegari holds a BS in Electrical Engineering from Purdue University, a Master's in Media Arts and Sciences from MIT's Media Lab, and a Ph.D. in music from University of California, San Diego. He has worked at Institut de Recherche et Coordination Acoustique/Musique (IRCAM), founded by Pierre Boulez, and he is one of the founders and artistic director of Kereshmeh Records and Persian Arts Society. He is currently on the faculty as Head of Design at the department of Theatre and Dance at University of California, San Diego, where he has founded a new progressive program in Sound Design. Among his recent collaborations are (The New) Ur Sonata with Steven Schick, Stay the Hand with John Malashock, Tobacco Road with David Schweiser, and Provenance with Maya Beiser and Robert Woodruff.